I have switched over to
https://github.com/jtoomim/p2pool code and things seem better, but still occasionally see bitcoind not responding errors.
I review the bitcoind logs
receive version message: /P2Pool:17.0-4-g68f653f-dirty/: version 70002, blocks=0, us=127.0.0.1:8333, peer=41
2017-12-08 16:01:59 Misbehaving: 127.0.0.1:52702 peer=41 (0 -> 100) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-12-08 16:01:59 Warning: not banning local peer 127.0.0.1:52702!
i can increase the banscore index to 150 ? not sure if this is a good move. Any Suggestions?
current bitcoin.conf file
rpcuser=bitcoinusernamegoeshere
rpcpassword=bigolpasswordgoeshere
#----
#rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
#----
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
maxconnections=20
#blockmaxsize=1000000 #default is 500000 (deprecated)
blockmaxweight=3950000
mintxfee=0.00001
minrelaytxfee=0.00001
dbcache=500
maxmempool=500
rpcthreads=50
addnode=v4.us-west.fibre.bitcoinrelaynetwork.org
#--------------------
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